Legal Opinion

Westbrook v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Decided January 20, 1960No. 30,966PublishedCited by 1 opinion

1Opinion of the Court

MORRISON, Presiding Judge.

The offense is the substantive crime of conspiracy to commit the offense of murder; the punishment, seven years.

The indictment charged appellant with conspiring with *267Maudell Berger to kill Walter Berger, whom the record shows was her husband. This case presents an extremely bizarre fact situation. The state adduced the following evidence from their principal witness, Walter Sands. That he was doing undercover work on narcotics cases for the police of Alexandria, Louisiana, when he came in contact with the appellant on January first of last year and that the appellant…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. King v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1919

3Cited by1 opinion

  1. Trussell v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1962

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